OREANDA-NEWS. July 12, 2012. MRK-Engineering, within ITERA International Group of Companies, took part in NEFTEGAZ-2012, the 14th International Exhibition of Equipment and Technologies for Oil and Gas Industry. The Exhibition was held in EXPOCENTER, the Central Exhibition Complex, in Moscow, reported the press-centre of ITERA.    

The Company displayed five core areas of its business at its exposition stand. They included:

- Engineering facilities of oil and gas industry and production of plant and equipment, and metal structures;

- Complex arrangement of oil and gas industry facilities on a turn-key basis (ЕРСС);

- Utilization of associated petroleum gas;

- Building linear facilities of pipelines;

- Road building.

Great attention of exhibition visitors was raised by projects related to a widely discussed and topical problem of recycling and processing associated petroleum gas. MRK-Engineering used to offer proven and well-behaved technologies that allowed for utilizing associated petroleum gas even in absence of necessary technological infrastructure in the field.

Professional qualities of MRK-Engineering specialists allow the Company to come out with successful and competitive offers at industrial competitions and tenders.

"We are currently involved in a number of such projects. We clearly realize specific nature of geography and infrastructure of fields in our country. It allows us to offer partners optimum solutions for utilizing associated petroleum gas, including solutions that allow for turning this problem into a profitable business. We study and analyze global experience on a continuous basis and, what’s more important, we are able to adjust it as much as possible to the fields in the Russian Federation territory", - Vyacheslav Guroshev, General Director of MRK-Engineering, LLC, said.

MRK-Engineering was established as a Service Company with a view of developing oil and gas fields of ITERA and other oil and gas companies in 1998. Nowadays, MRK-Engineering is among leading Russian construction-engineering companies within oil and gas industry that are involved in quality project engineering, construction and commissioning of facilities within tight schedule. At present, the Company is an ITERA Group principal operator for construction of industrial facilities. The Company has been certificated under ISO 9001:2008, ISO 14001:2004 and OHSAS 18001:2007 international standards. Moreover, in accordance with the Russian Federation laws, the Company received new Engineering, Construction and Installation Work Competency Certificates in 2009.

ITERA International Group of Companies is a vertically integrated holding company which includes dozens of enterprises and companies in CIS, Baltic countries, Western Europe, Asia and the USA. Gas business is a core business of ITERA since its inception in 1992. ITERA Oil and Gas Company, a Group company, has been developing its own production of gas in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District since 1998. It had invested over USD 2 billion into development of the gas industry. The total of about 250 billion cubic meters of natural gas has been produced in the fields developed by ITERA. Strategic businesses of the Group also include development, gas processing and power generation.